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Old 10-18-2009, 10:57 PM
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My hand slipped while soldering and I poked a hole in the blue film on my lipo batts. The tip beeeaaarrrlly touched the silver surface, but it's not charging anymore so I'm assuming I killed it.

Are lipo that sensitive to heat?
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Old 10-18-2009, 10:59 PM
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i would just ditch them. I know they can be sensitive but I would never take a chance with them. You might not have touched it to badly but it is damaged in a way.

I think you might have killed em...don't want to seem like a jerk or nothing but did the lipos work prior?

sorry thats all i can really help with
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Old 10-18-2009, 11:03 PM
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My hand slipped while soldering and I poked a hole in the blue film on my lipo batts. The tip beeeaaarrrlly touched the silver surface, but it's not charging anymore so I'm assuming I killed it.

Are lipo that sensitive to heat?
Do you have a voltmeter? check and see their voltage. They have a very quick discharge rate but just a brief moment shouldnt have killed it unless they were already really low charge.
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Old 10-18-2009, 11:04 PM
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I know that I was able to steer with it before I poked it, but I don't know if the forward/back worked since I was replacing a fet. But I rewired the steering right now and that doesn't even work now so I think it's safe to say that it's dead :/

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Do you have a voltmeter? check and see their voltage. They have a very quick discharge rate but just a brief moment shouldnt have killed it unless they were already really low charge.
no voltmeter :/


Addition: also, I hadn't let it charge for months....maybe half a year, I might have let the voltage run too low.
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Old 10-18-2009, 11:12 PM
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I know this might sound crazy but one time I left my xmod on and the lithium batteries drained down to ZERO volts, however, the atomicmods charger has a special mode it goes into that can sometimes save the batteries by trickle charging. Believe it or not those batteries I left on charged up after about 5 horus on that atomicmods charger.
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Old 10-18-2009, 11:18 PM
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I know this might sound crazy but one time I left my xmod on and the lithium batteries drained down to ZERO volts, however, the atomicmods charger has a special mode it goes into that can sometimes save the batteries by trickle charging. Believe it or not those batteries I left on charged up after about 5 horus on that atomicmods charger.
Sounds pretty crazy, yeah, but it's definitely worth a try. It'll save me 20-30 bucks if it works. Bit scared though with all those warnings for lipo batts on the atomicmods site. Great way to make people paranoid. lol.
Better safe than sorry I guess.
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Old 10-18-2009, 11:22 PM
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Sounds pretty crazy, yeah, but it's definitely worth a try. It'll save me 20-30 bucks if it works. Bit scared though with all those warnings for lipo batts on the atomicmods site. Great way to make people paranoid. lol.
Better safe than sorry I guess.
Eh, I'm not scared! If you want you can mail me the lithium batteries and I'll try to charge them for you on my charger. I'm a verified service provider on this site so you know I can be trusted
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just barely touching the tip to the battery case wouldnt be anything i would be scared of. they can be sensitive, but not that sensitive. check them with a voltmeter see what they show. this will let you know if its something with the batteries, a solder joint, something with the xmod or what.
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Old 10-19-2009, 12:09 AM
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lol, I found the problem.
I was charging it right now and I lifted it up to feel if it was getting hot or anything, and then the wire I had used to lengthen the stock wire popped off. Noob soldering on my part was the problem. lol

...well, at least I hope that was the only problem. I'll find out after I re-solder it.

Addition: Yeah, that was the problem. I re-soldered it, and finally got to use my shrink tubing that's been laying around for a while. It's charging now
I'd better practice my soldering skills... lol.

Thanks for the help guys
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Great I'm real glad, now invest the money you would have had to use to replace the lithium on a voltmeter!
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Great I'm real glad, now invest the money you would have had to use to replace the lithium on a voltmeter!
I probably should. Would've saved me time today.
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